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Janine di Giovanni

Janine di Giovanni

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Janine di Giovanni is executive director at The Reckoning Project, which documents war crimes inside Ukraine. She has been a reporter of war and conflict for more than three decades, working in more than 19 wars and witnessing three genocides, focused mainly on human rights. She is the author of nine books, and the recipient of more than a dozen journalistic and humanitarian awards. She is the former Murrow fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, and a senior fellow at Yale Jackson School for Global Affairs and a fellow at Johns Hopkins Agora Institute. She lives in New York City and Paris and is the mother of one son.
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More than 23,000 Americans have died from guns since the start of 2022. AP
How American communities can come together to stop the spread of gun violence

Gun deaths have reached such a level that it's safe to start calling it an epidemic

CommentJuly 15, 2022
Janine di Giovanni
Red and blue smoke is fired at the Ellipse of the White House during the "Salute to America" event held to celebrate Independence Day in Washington in 2020. Reuters
A sombre Fourth of July awaits Americans this year, but we shall overcome

There is much for US citizens to fret about, but the country has been here before

CommentJuly 04, 2022
Janine di Giovanni
The bodies of four people who died during the Russian occupation await burial during funerals in Bucha, Ukraine, last month. AP Photo
Prosecuting war crimes in Ukraine is an international victory

Modern approaches and lessons from the past mean that those who break the rules of war might be held historically accountable

CommentJune 01, 2022
Janine di Giovanni
People gather at Grand Central Station for a rally in New York City last month. AFP
Little Ukraine and the solidarity of a diaspora in New York

Wandering down Second Avenue, the strength of a community is evident

CommentApril 20, 2022
Janine di Giovanni
A couple survey the devastation of their neighbourhood near Sarajevo airport, where intense shelling and fighting had reduced nearly every house to rubble, in April 1996, in Sarajevo. Tom Stoddart Archive
Bosnians have something to say to Ukraine about life after a siege

There may be darker days ahead for Ukraine but a message from Sarajevo speaks of hope

CommentApril 07, 2022
Janine di Giovanni
Cameraman Pierre Zakrzewski, US journalist Trey Yingst and Ukrainian journalist Oleksandra "Sasha" Kuvshynova reporting in Ukraine. Fox News / AFP
Journalists covering the Ukraine war are 'white flags'

Warring parties should respect the presence of reporters on the field

CommentMarch 21, 2022
Janine di Giovanni
Two students from Eswatini comfort each other after they managed to cross from Ukraine into Romania, on February 27, 2022. EPA
Ukraine exposes once again the dangerous notion of 'good v bad refugees'

Everyone fleeing Ukraine has an urgent reason to do so, regardless of their race

CommentMarch 04, 2022
Janine di Giovanni
An ambulance travels towards a checkpoint set up by the army on the road between Bakhmut and Luhanske, near the frontline in eastern Ukraine. AP
A war in Ukraine could spark Europe's next big refugee crisis

The continent already has a problem dealing with those fleeing war, and it may be about to get worse

CommentFebruary 14, 2022
Janine di Giovanni
US President Joe Biden pauses as he listens to a question about the bombings at the Kabul airport in August in Washington. AP Photo
Biden is no A+ student but he's still America's best bet

I've given the US President a better grade for his first year in office than many of my compatriots have

CommentJanuary 19, 2022
Janine di Giovanni
Elizabeth Holmes, centre, at the federal court in San Jose, California, on January 3. AP
The Elizabeth Holmes verdict and America's justice system

Compare the cases of Anthony Broadwater with those of two white American women

CommentDecember 26, 2021
Janine di Giovanni
Fighter jets fly past a church in Croatia. AFP
Western reticence is endangering Bosnia and the Balkans

A shaky peace deal drawn up decades ago is on the brink of collapse

CommentNovember 28, 2021
Janine di Giovanni
A man paddles his boat at the Chebayesh marsh, Dhi Qar province, Iraq, August 13. Reuters
Why is it so hot in the Middle East?

The link between climate change and future conflicts is especially worrying

CommentNovember 07, 2021
Janine di Giovanni
The destroyed edifice of the Church of St Mary Al Tahira in Qaraqosh on Iraq's Nineveh plain, on December 27, 2016. The offensive to retake the Iraqi city from ISIL began in mid-October. Shortly afterwards, Iraqi forces and local militias drove out ISIL from Qaraqosh, 10 miles east of Mosul. Getty
Christians in Iraq and the Middle East must keep faith

Despite dwindling community numbers, as churches and villages are being rebuilt, there is hope

CommentOctober 14, 2021
Janine di Giovanni
"Hotel Rwanda" hero Paul Rusesabagina in the pink inmate's uniform arrives from the Nyarugenge prison with Rwanda Correctional Service (RCS) officers at the Nyarugenge Court of Justice in Kigali, Rwanda, on September 25, 2020. He was sentenced last week to 25 years in prison on terror charges. AFP
Rwanda's battle for the soul

The conviction of Paul Rusesabagina on terror charges has divided Rwandans

CommentSeptember 28, 2021
Janine di Giovanni
Pedestrians and police run as a tower of the World Trade Center collapses, after two planes crashed into the complex destroying New York's mighty twin towers September 11, 2001. Loss of life is expected to be catastrophic from the collapse of the giant towers where some 50,000 people work. Reuters CLH/
After 9/11, America was no longer invincible

The date lit off a series of attacks and emboldened terrorist groups around the world

CommentSeptember 10, 2021
Janine di Giovanni
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